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PCSTATS takes you on a guided tour of Gigabyte's Motherboard Factory in Taiwan. There's a lot to producing and testing a single motherboard; a mind-boggling host of automated machines, people and processes. Gigabyte has several other factories in Taiwan and mainland China that each manufacture motherboards, videocards, and other products.
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Testing Stage 3: Burn In
The final stage of testing is the stress
test. Gigabyte's Nan-Ping factory has a few huge, temperature controlled glass cabinet where a large
number of motherboards can be hooked up with a variety of videocards
and stress tested. Each system is run through several hundred loops of 3D Mark
2001 in 40C temperatures. This tests stability under the most
grueling of conditions.
![PCstats Gigabyte Factory Tour](https://www.pcstats.com/articleimages/200502/gigabytefactory_dscf3318.jpg) Gigabyte's
glass 'burn-in' testing cabinets |
![PCstats Gigabyte Factory Tour](https://www.pcstats.com/articleimages/200502/gigabytefactory_dscf3319.jpg) Temperature is
set to 40 degrees. The benchmark is 3DMark 2001
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![PCstats Gigabyte Factory Tour](https://www.pcstats.com/articleimages/200502/gigabytefactory_dscf3321.jpg) The PCI
daughter board indicates which test loop each motherboard is on
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![PCstats Gigabyte Factory Tour](https://www.pcstats.com/articleimages/200502/gigabytefactory_test1.jpg) Every single
motherboard is tested this way, all with
different videocards from various manufacturers |
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